Organ transplantation is often studied in its medical, legal or ethical dimensions. Very few works have considered the supply chain dimension, even though organisation of organ transportation critical to success transplants given extremely tight time constraint guarantee correct state organ. The authors examine logistical systems associated with transplantation, distinguishing between two servi...

Abstract Innovative selling channels have brought about opportunities as well challenges for upstream manufacturers. The past few years witnessed both the success and failure of manufacturers with different channel strategies. To explore rationale strategies in various contexts, we develop a model to analyze manufacturer's selection decision among three strategies, i.e., direct-channel strategy...

As the increasingly fierce competition, more and more manufacturers have started to sell products through online channels apart from traditional retail channel. Meanwhile, increased competition has significantly shortened the product life cycle, which makes sales forecast meaningful. Taking lack of historical record into account, the sales forecast model based on historical sales data based on ...

The development of the Internet has changed way that tourism products are sold. More and more product providers (TPPs) use online travel agencies (OTAs) offline (TA) to sell their products. With increasing consumption, service quality also become an important factor for consumers choose Analysing effect on pricing, demand, profits under centralised decentralised decisions helps industry sustain...

In this research work, a wholesaler-retailer-customer supply chain model for a deteriorating item is considered, where the retailer's warehouse in the market place has a limited capacity. The retailer can rent an additional warehouse (rented warehouse) if needed, with a higher rent compared to the existing warehouse (own warehouse). The customers' demand of the item is linearly influenced by th...

In the past decades, the inappropriate subsidy policies in many nations have caused problems such as serious oversupply, fierce competition and subpar social welfare in the photovoltaic (PV) industry in many nations. There is a clear shortage in the PV industry literature regarding how dual supply chains compete and the key decision issues regarding the competition between dual PV supply chains...

This paper investigates the coordination of dual-channel supply chain under quality control with a loss-averse manufacturer and retailer. Facing various uncertain factors, members tend to show loss aversion, which makes their actual decision deviate from optimal without considering aversion. Therefore, aversion effect function is applied characterize members. Besides, control, utility model con...

This paper explores pricing and replenishment policies for a high-tech product in a dual-channel supply chain that consists of a brick-and-mortar channel and an internet channel. The unit cost of the product decreases over its short life cycle. Assuming the manufacturer as the Stackelberg leader, the optimal pricing and replenishment policy is analysed mathematically. It is found that there is ...